The Villain Is Obsessed With His Fake Wife

Rosaria deliberately made up a sadder face while looking at Estelle.

“Can you get me out? I think this cell is too cold.”

Damian also joined in.

“Yes. You don’t know, but your mother is a weak person. Let her at least keep her body warm.”

Estelle and a maid. She had come this far without any restrictions, and it could be seen that the guards did not treat Estelle carelessly. Estelle must have had a firm grip on Duke Blanchett. She wasn’t a kid who could use her brain enough to gain power by making some kind of deal.

“Baby?”

Rosaria called Estelle.

“Look at mom, baby.”

If it had been in the past, she would have rushed right away and shed tears saying she was sorry. However, seeing her just staring at her without saying anything made her nervous.

“Betty.”

After a while, Estelle’s lips finally opened. Estelle looked at their faces, then looked back at the lady-in-waiting next to her and asked.

“What are those people saying?”

It seemed that their desperate acting could not be seen or heard. It was like a titan.

* * *

The Duke of Libertan was in the deepest part of the dungeon. It was easy to find because of the splendid appearance that did not match the prison.

“Betty. What are those people saying?”

“Well.”

“I can’t hear anything.”

She didn’t get any more inspiration than she thought, so I looked at it indifferently. Contempt crept into Betty’s eyes as she looked at the Duke and Duchess of Libertan.

“These are people you don’t want to talk to.”

Rosaria, who had overheard their conversation but still hadn’t grasped the situation, gave her a pathetic expression.

“My dear. My baby Estelle.”

“Are you okay?”

She asked in a calm voice.

“Who are you to say baby to me?”

“Are you mad at your mother?”

Rosalia now began to weep her tears.

“Estelle, come on. People caught us and put us in places like this. We only have you. I need your help now I have something for you… Previously.”

The moment Damian was about to command her mournfully, she cut off his words.

“Why? Why do you ask me?”

“That, that’s it… Aren’t you here to save us?”

“Not at all.”

At her words, the Duke and Duchess of Libertan trembled with shocked faces.

“You, how are you…”

They may be all the more shocked because she has always been an obedient daughter who listens. But whether these people were shocked or not was none of her business.

‘I have to ask about the curse.’

Rosalia was still in shock, her mouth hanging open, and Damian stammered, as if he had seen her nonsense.

“Estelle, calm down. You don’t recognize who we are, do you?”

“I’m sorry, but the reason I came is only because I have business to do. I have a question for you.”

Both the Duke and Duchess looked shocked.

“Did you call us that side now?”

“Why…?”

The attitude of the Duke and Duchess of Libertan was strange.

“Why is that?”

They looked into her face as if they were looking for any trace of emotion in her.

“They’re the ones who even cursed me.”

“What, what curse?”

Rosalia answered, meeting her eyes straight. But she didn’t let go of her trembling hand.

‘It wasn’t John after all.’

The curse the trees spoke of was the work of the Duke of Libertan.

‘Since we’ve been together since childhood, it must have been easy to do so.’

When she realized that John was not the one who had cursed, she felt much more at ease. Even if the curse remained the same.

‘But why the hell did he put a curse on me?’

As much as she didn’t know much about the curse in the first place, it was difficult to guess the reason.

‘If they want anything… Stella?’

But Stella was already dead. And she was the adopted child after Stella died.

“That sounds absurd.”

Damian stubbornly shook his head.

“Curse. Even though you’re not my real daughter, she didn’t even do that.”

“Okay, baby. I think you are misunderstanding something.”

She was silent with her arms crossed. The Duke and Duchess of Libertan, who had been strongly denying it, also noticed her silence and slowly shut up.

“It is strange. Strange memories keep coming back to me these days.”

Taking advantage of the confusion of the Duke and Duchess of Libertan, she began to secretly look at them. Recalling what she read in the magic book, any curse required a ritual for it. Nor was it possible to perform the ceremony anywhere. In other words, it meant that the curse could not have been executed at the Duke of Libertan’s residence.

“In childhood. I remember being taken to a strange place.”

“Muh, what!”

Rosalia was taken aback by those words. Unable to hide her embarrassment, she slowly lowered her voice.

“We know nothing.”

She knew they would desperately claim their innocence. However, the Duke and Duchess of Libertan seemed to be more interested in other things than that.

“Why did you change your attitude all of a sudden? Why don’t you smile, and why don’t you call us parents?”

“Aren’t we the ones you love the most?”

The way he asked seemed genuinely sincere.

‘I thought I’d explain the curse.’

But thanks to that, the tiring work was much less.

“I’m sorry, but I’m really not interested in you anymore. If you’re doing this because you want to get out, then you must be looking at the wrong person.”

She looked indifferently at the Duke and Duchess of Libertan, who were holding the iron bars.

“Above all, my family is separate now. Not you.”

“You said you had a family?”

An indescribable rage flashed in Damian’s eyes.

“You mean Duke Blanchett? He is not your family.”

She felt a strange vibration on the floor. Sensation of bristling of the skin.

‘It’s magic.’

She heard the sound of rough footsteps. Before long, a low male voice resounded in the cell.

“Ma’am, are you okay?”

John entered the cell. When their eyes met, he closed his eyes and smiled.

“Didn’t those scum say something strange to you?”

Maybe he was trying to scratch her, his tone was strangely cold. She awkwardly scratched her cheek and smiled brightly.

“I’m not sure what kind of sound it is.”

And she slowly moved her eyes. The Duke and Duchess of Libertan, John and she. It would be difficult for the three of them to get together again. So it seemed good to aim for this opportunity.

“But I checked everything I wanted to check. Now my only family is the Duke.”

“…Am I the only one?”

“Are you sure you don’t like it?”

From her point of view, she clearly drew a line with the Duke and Duchess of Libertan. It didn’t seem like he would answer the curse anymore anyway.

‘But it’s different from John’s point of view.’

John was silent for a moment.

Bang! bang!

Damian groaned and screamed at him. But no voice came out. Only the rattling of the iron bars resounded emptyly. When Rosaria saw Damian’s face beside her, she shrank her body in surprise.

“I still haven’t touched my wife, but I can’t let her go.”

John’s smooth face gracefully turned to the two of them. A shadow rose in an instant and grabbed Damian and Rosaria’s heads and shook them vigorously.

“What do you want me to do, wife?”

There was a difference in John’s red eyes. Maybe this was a test. A test of whether or not she would truly betray him.

‘I rather like it.’

Because there would be no case that proves that she was not the target of revenge more than now.

“I am done… Do as my husband wishes.”

This time, she deliberately used the title of husband instead of Duke. And she carefully put her arms around John’s. Then John looked at her and smiled softly.

“As my wife wishes.”

John naturally escorted her outside. She left the place with John without looking back. She didn’t even want to say goodbye to those people anymore.

“Why! You said you loved us!”

Rosaria, her mouth shut, shouted behind her.

“Why did you suddenly have a change of heart? You said you would fill Stella’s place! Why are you looking at us with such eyes…!”

She was funny.

“-Estelle!”

That was the end of what she heard from them. Ah, the air in the prison was definitely not very good. She couldn’t seem to come here twice.

* * *

The shadows holding Rosaria and Damian hit their heads hard against the barbed wire and then disappeared. It was obviously a huge shock, but they couldn’t even feel the pain of what they had just gone through.

‘Estelle has changed.’

The person they just saw was definitely their adopted daughter, Estelle. A stupid daughter who craved her affection even though she ignored and abused her like that. However, only her appearance was the same, she was not the Estelle they knew at all. Their indifferent attitude, as if they couldn’t even see their pleas. She treated them kindly with her pitiful expressions and gestures. Now Estelle didn’t look at them at all. In the past, Estelle’s indigo blue eyes always contained pure affection. Her gaze was directed only at them.

‘Mother! Father! I was wrong. I’ll try harder.’

She had an incomprehensible affection that was always readily available. The silent gaze that tried to work hard for the two of them somehow. It was a look that seemed like it would never change. What the Duchess had just seen was not the Estelle the Duchess had known. What she thought was natural was gone. In that fact, the plan to use Estelle to go outside, the plan to have Estelle give her false testimony, and everything she had planned to survive were volatilized. Because there was no more love in those eyes.

* * *

All the way back John asked nothing.

“Her face is bad. What did she hear inside?”

“It really didn’t matter. Ask Betty later.”

“If that’s the case, that’s fine. Because I trust my wife.”

He confused him too much.

“He seems to be in a bit of a bad mood for his wife, so she was just worried.”

No matter how he thought about it, John should have been told about the situation from Betty a moment ago.

‘It must be suspicious?’

Of course, he could secretly call Betty and listen to it later.

‘Okay. He must be saying this in front of me now.’

Because it would be more important to live his heart by talking like this. However, Betty, who followed along, was not in a condition to testify accurately.

‘I think I was a bit shocked by the word curse.’

Certainly, it would have surprised her if someone she was close with was cursed.

‘But the Duke and Duchess of Libertan were in denial.’

Even if Betty conveys everything to John, it wouldn’t create a big variable. She had already prepared an excuse for John. She was going to say that she suspected a curse because she was so weak since childhood, and it was strange that she was sick often. She added the excuse that it was a bit strange to ask the duchess once because she had never been in contact with anyone.

‘Although it might arouse suspicion.’

She made a mistake and said the wrong thing, but she couldn’t argue anymore. This was the way to meet the long-awaited Duke and Duchess of Libertan. Even though she saw the downfall of those who abused her, she didn’t feel angry or happy. She was just infinitely indifferent.

‘I don’t know why I’m so clingy.’

Still, it seemed they had some meaning to her.

‘What seemed to have changed… That must be my mistake too.’

Somehow, even in the midst of shabby, it seemed that there was life in his eyes. However, it was clear that it was because it had gone through a great crisis called downfall.

‘I should go back and rest.’

He turned his gaze and looked out the window. She thought it was a summer festival soon, but it seemed that it had already begun. Flowers decorated for summer festivals could be seen on every street.

“Ma’am. Is there anything you want to do?”

“I know you were overdoing it by coming to see your parents like this.”

“Don’t talk like that.”

John tapped the window he was looking at with his long finger, as if he didn’t like something.

“Didn’t you get an invitation to the masquerade?”

She suddenly remembered the invitation she received from Betty the other day.

‘I wanted to go, but…’

Confined to the Duke of Libertan, she lived a life completely away from such parties. Even the name of the masquerade ball itself felt like it would be exciting.

“Shall we go to the masquerade together? You haven’t even gone out once since we got married.”

As he pondered for a moment, John stood up slightly. The wagon was wide enough, but seemed a bit narrow for his long legs.

“You don’t have to think hard.”

“But the Duke of Libertan was exterminated for treason…”

“It’s a masquerade after all. No one will know.”

It was an indescribable consolation. If her true identity was known, all sorts of tiring things would follow.

‘I can’t make it difficult for light pleasure.’

In the first place, she forgot that she had even received an invitation until John spoke up. Then, John, who was sitting next to her, naturally put his hand on the shoulder opposite him and hugged her. A confined space, a situation where there were only two of them. She could smell his body as he approached.

“What does that have to do with my wife?”

And without realizing it, he held her hand tightly. His black gloved hand was cold, but strangely warm.

“My wife is Blanchett. Estelle Blanchett.”

Since she had to pretend she didn’t know the evidence that she wasn’t officially married, it was more difficult to argue.

“Then I want to go. The two of you together should go.”

“Okay. Let’s go together.”

Come to think of it, when she thought of a masquerade, only one person came to mind.

‘The Crown Prince.’

 

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Translator Note: Sorry for the changes and problems in the schedule. We migrated the page and things got messed.